Start the fall season off right with a big bowl of creamy carrot sweet potato soup aka “liquid gold!” It has the perfect amount of ginger and only requires 7 ingredients! Vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free.

Last week, Hurricane Irma barrelled through Florida and knocked out most of the state’s power. We lost power at our house for almost one week after Irma hit us. Thankfully, our home had very minimal damage and I had stocked up on enough non-perishable vegan items to last us until the power came back on late Saturday night.

We were lucky enough to have a week’s notice to prepare for the hurricane, so it gave me time to go through the fridge and freezer and cook up some of my stockpile in case we ran out of gas for our generator.

I had a huge 10lb bag of carrots in the fridge that I didn’t want to lose so carrot soup was the last meal I cooked before the storm hit. I’ve been dreaming of it ever since!

The only way to make baked purple sweet potatoes anymore delicious is to stuff them with roasted garlic broccoli and the creamiest vegan cheese sauce! Dairy-free and gluten-free.

Potatoes stuffed with broccoli and drenched in ooey-gooey cheese sauce was one of my favorite meals when I was little. I would request less broccoli and more cheese, please! I don’t think that ever happened but I still tried.

My mom aways made us very healthy dinners, so, cheesy broccoli stuffed potatoes were more of a treat meal on special nights when we got to request something for dinner. Like, if we got a good grade on a test or did something extra nice for someone.

Old school cheesy broccoli stuffed potatoes aren’t exactly the healthiest meal but I still loved it. Now, that I’m a vegetarian trying to transition to being a full time vegan, I have to come up with replacements for certain things that I used to love aka cheese.

Sweet potato noodles tossed in a creamy peanut butter sauce with a spicy kick! Loaded with flavor and veggies, this dish will become your new healthy quick weeknight meal! Vegan, dairy-free and gluten-free.

You can never have too many quick and healthy dinner recipes.

I have a whole section in my recipe box dedicated just to these types of recipes. I don’t put just any recipes that I want to make in my recipe box, only my tried and true recipes that I make often make it in.

Surprisingly, I don’t care for cookbooks. Shocking, right? A food blogger who doesn’t want cookbooks in her home. I just feel like they are a waste of space. We don’t have a lot of storage space so I need to take advantage of every little bit we have.

Since the birth of Pinterest, I can look up any type of food that I want to make, so I don’t need to buy a cookbook just for one recipe. I’ve never found a cookbook that I want to make every single recipe so what’s the point?

Once I find a certain recipe that we love or one that I’ve created, I write it down and file it away in my recipe box to keep.